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Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word…
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science · French-American mathematician (1924–2010) · mathematician · economist · professor · scientist · writer · computer scientist · engineer · university teacher · also Benoit Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot, B. B., Benoît Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot
Born 20 November 1924 · Died 14 October 2010 · Q101740
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2020· 3 entries
Newsweek: Who is Benoit Mandelbrot? Google Doodle Honors Father of Fractal Geometry
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9to5google: Google Doodle honors Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish mathematician
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2010· 5 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Benoit Mandelbrot
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Died 2010-10-14.
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“If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.”
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“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...”
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“Engineering is too important to wait for science.”
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2005· 1 entry
Was Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Japan Prize (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Won Lewis Fry Richardson Medal (2000).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Sterling Professor (1999).
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Awarded John Scott Award (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1998).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1993).
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The Lewis Fry Richardson Prize of the European Geophysical Society in 2000, the Japan Prize in 2003, and the Einstein Lectureship of the American Mathematical Society in 2006
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1991· 1 entry
Won Nevada Medal (1991).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Harvey Prize (1989).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1989).
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Humboldt Research Fellowship (1987).
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Awarded Humboldt Prize (1987).
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Mandelbrot joined the Department of Mathematics at Yale, while continuing as an IBM Fellow until his fellowship ended in 1993
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1986· 2 entries
Won Franklin Medal (1986).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Won Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
Published “<i>The Fractal Geometry of Nature</i>” in American Journal of Physics — cited 5,135 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Mandelbrot expanded and updated his ideas in The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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1975· 2 entries
“I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.”
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Mandelbrot coined the term fractal to describe these structures and first published his ideas in the French book Les Objets Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension, later translated in 1977 as Fractals: Form, Chance and Dim
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1974· 1 entry
A new explanation of Olbers' paradox (the "dark night sky" riddle), demonstrating the consequences of fractal theory as a sufficient, but not necessary, resolution of the paradox
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1972).
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1968).
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Published “Fractional Brownian Motions, Fractional Noises and Applications” in SIAM Review — cited 6,011 times.
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1967).
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Mandelbrot discusses self-similar curves that have Hausdorff dimension that are examples of fractals, although Mandelbrot does not use this term in the paper, as he did not coin it until 1975
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1963· 1 entry
Published “The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices” in The Journal of Business — cited 4,135 times.
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1958· 3 entries
Awarded IBM Fellow (1958).
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Began a 35-year career at IBM, where he became an IBM Fellow, and periodically took leaves of absence to teach at Harvard University
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The couple moved to the United States where Mandelbrot joined the research staff at the IBM Thomas J
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1955· 1 entry
Married Aliette Kagan and moved to Geneva, Switzerland (to collaborate with Jean Piaget at the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology) and later to the Université Lille Nord de France
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris, Doctor of Philosophy (1952).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Master of Science (1947–1949).
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1947· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1945–1947).
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1944· 2 entries
Mandelbrot returned to Paris, studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, and in 1945 to 1947 attended the prestigious École Polytechnique, where he studied under French mathematicians Gaston Julia and Paul Lévy
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Studied at lycée du Parc (1944–1944).
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1936· 2 entries
At the age of 11, Mandelbrot and his family emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, to France
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When he was 11, the family emigrated from Poland to France
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-11-20.
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